What is Socket 1156?

Socket 1156, better known as the LGA 1156, is a central drawer for processing (CPU), which Semiconductor Company Intel Corporation designed for its Lynnfield- and Clarkdale processors. Published in 2009, it is best known as a socket for the i3, i5 and i7 processors, which represented a base, medium and highest levels, its flagship of the basic brand of consumers oriented processors. In addition to the LGA 1156, the Socket 1156 is also known as the Socket H.

as well as other CPU sockets, the Socket 1156 is designed to connect a processor with a base plate for electrical conductivity, as well as for physical security and protection. The LGA prefix is ​​an abbreviation for a "auspices grid field", a factor of a socket that includes pins that hold the CPU arranged in a proper, four -digit layout on a square substrate, with the number 1156 accusing the number of pins. Socket 1156 has a LGA variant called Flip-Chip LGA (FCLGA). This means that the CPU is flipped over to reveal your back, which is its the hottest chosenst. Therefore, the user can place the cooler to distract the heat and then reduce the possibility of CPU failure. In the middle, the section of 0.94 is cut off by 0.63 inches (24 x 16 mm). The pitch size of the pin is 0.036 inches (0.9144 mm).

Socket 1156 supports the Core i5 series with dual core i3-5xx series Core i3, dual core i5-6xx and quad-core i5-7xx and quad-core i7-8xx series i7 core series. I3 core compatible with LGA 1155 has a speed range of 2.93 to 3.2-Gigahertz (GHz). I5-6xx and -7xx range ranges are 3.2 to 3.6 GHz and 2.66 to 2.8 GHz; While the i7 is 2.8 to 2.93 GHz. As regards memory specifications, all sockets of the Intel chips compatible chips support two channels of the third generation double data speed Synchronous dynamic random access (DDR3) with a maximum speed of 1,333 MHz.

Intel core is not the only CPU brand supported by the Socket 1156. It is also available withCeleron and G6xxx series with G1xxx series X34xx and X34xx series with X34xx XEON series Server and Workstation. The processing speeds are 2.26 GHz, 2.8 GHz, 1.86 GHz and 2.4 to 2.93 GHz. While the Xeon compatible with a socket 1156 uses the same maximum of 1,333-MHz DDR3 SDRAM standard core chips, the top memory of Celeron and Pentium is lower, at 1,066 MHz.